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Albert Pike

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Albert Pike belongs to that rare category of people whose words are more famous than their biography. Their thinking spans from Truth to War, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Browse 12 quotes by Albert Pike that cover ground from Truth, War, Politics, Men, and Learning. One standout: "A war for a great principle ennobles a nation."

“Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.”

— Albert Pike

Men

All Quotes by Albert Pike

“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”

— Albert Pike

War

“Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.”

— Albert Pike

Learning

“Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.”

— Albert Pike

Great

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

— Albert Pike

Truth

“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”

— Albert Pike

Politics

“Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.”

— Albert Pike

Faith

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

— Albert Pike

Alone

“The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.”

— Albert Pike

Truth

“Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.”

— Albert Pike

Men